top-level

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to people of the highest office or rank.

adj. Of or relating to the highest office or rank: a top-level job.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Highest

adj. Best

adj. Primary; a web page that is directly accessible by typing its name, not followed by any additional information.

Etymologies

top + level (Wiktionary)

Examples

In some cases, the ontologies developed are domain-specific (e.g. specific to medical information, geographic information, etc.), but there has also been a great deal of interest in developing a ˜top-level™ ontology of maximally general categories applicable to all specific domains; it is such top-level ontologies that draw upon philosophical work on ontological categories most directly, although categorial distinctions also play a crucial role in domain-specific ontologies.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, asks the court to block the new so-called top-level domain name altogether, rebid the contract, or put price controls and service requirements on ICM.

ICANN in March awarded a contract to create the new so-called top-level domain name to a company called ICM Registry LLC, which Manwin and Digital Playground say has abused its position by requiring pornography companies and others to buy up Internet addresses in order to keep squatters from infringing on their trademarks with close equivalents like YouPorn.xxx.

Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA Libya under increasing pressure from the Gaddafi regime's sophisticated weaponry, the White House says President Obama has called a top-level meeting of his security advisors to discuss Libya.

France said yesterday that it wanted to call a top-level meeting in Paris next week of the so-called Contact Group of nations supporting the Libyan rebels: the United States, Britain, several Arab states, the United Nations, and the Arab League.